Shrek City! Shrek Academy! Sea God's Pavilion! Dragon God Douluo Mu En! Cultivation Speed Amid Human Crowds!

Shrek City covered an enormous area and was incomparably prosperous.

The streets were packed with people, bustling with activity.

Shrek Academy stood in the very heart of the city.

This area had originally been carved out by the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire and gifted to Shrek Academy, symbolizing its complete independence.

They had also wanted Shrek Academy, situated between them, to serve as a balancing force.

To some extent, it replaced a small part of Spirit Hall's role.

However, its actual effect was not all that significant.

Shrek Academy remained neutral and focused on education, refusing to involve itself in political struggles between nations.

After all, it had its own Titled Douluo and possessed a deep foundation.

The moment Huang Fei stepped into the city, he was drawn in by its prosperity.

"It really is prosperous. It smells like money everywhere."

"One day, I will have territory even larger and more prosperous than this."

He took a deep breath. Even the air seemed filled with the scent of money, and the spiritual energy here was denser than outside.

This was only the city. If he entered Shrek Academy, it would be even denser.

Not to mention the so-called Sea God's Pavilion and Sea God Lake, which were even more extraordinary.

From here, he could see a towering tree deep within Shrek Academy.

The surrounding area was shrouded in mist, making it difficult to see clearly.

It was as if a barrier had deliberately been erected to prevent outsiders from examining it.

If nothing unexpected happened, that was where Sea God's Pavilion was located.

The compensation Beibei had given him was quite substantial—ten thousand Gold Soul Coins in total.

For a wealthy young master who lacked no money, that was not even enough to count as pocket money.

With that compensation, Huang Fei began touring the city.

Since he had finally come all this way, he naturally could not miss the chance.

He ate and drank to his heart's content.

Meanwhile, Beibei, Tang Ya, and Huo Yuhao had entered Shrek Academy through another route.

Huo Yuhao was already a member of the Tang Sect. Given his talent, age, and Soul Ring that everyone mistook for a ten-year white ring, he was not qualified to enter the academy through the normal admissions process tomorrow.

Thus, they could only use the Tang Sect Spot reserved each year to have Huo Yuhao join Shrek Academy.

Tang Ya first arranged temporary accommodations for Huo Yuhao.

Beibei, meanwhile, returned to Sea God's Pavilion and met his Great-Grandfather.

Sea God's Pavilion was located within a massive ancient tree.

This was the Golden Tree.

It was also Tang San's mother, Ah Yin.

Even if the Blue Silver Emperor evolved through the Extreme Life Flow, it would likely be unable to avoid the threshold of becoming the Golden Tree.

Above the Golden Tree seemed to be the Golden Ancient Tree.

It was a manifestation of the rules of the Douluo Heavenly Dao.

It was connected to the life and death of the entire Douluo Star.

It had to be said that this alone revealed Tang San's malicious intent.

"Did everything go smoothly?"

Dragon God Douluo Mu En lay in a recliner woven from vines, his expression kindly as he looked at Beibei, his Great-Grandson.

He was the most outstanding member of the family's younger generation.

He was the one with the greatest hope of inheriting Mu En's legacy in the future.

Yet Mu En never imagined that Huo Yuhao, rather than Beibei, would ultimately inherit it.

"Greetings, Great-Grandfather. Everything went smoothly during our Soul Ring hunt in the Star Dou Great Forest."

"Tang Ya successfully absorbed a Starfall Ghost Vine of over seventeen hundred years as her Third Soul Ring, reaching Level Thirty-Two as a Three-Ring Soul Elder."

Beibei spoke respectfully.

He particularly revered and admired the Great-Grandfather before him.

This was also the goal he pursued.

Even if it was exceedingly difficult, he still had to catch up.

Because he possessed his own pride.

"It's good that she succeeded."

"Sigh, who would have thought that the Tang Sect, which had endured for ten thousand years, would be destroyed overnight and decline completely?"

"Fate's irony, indeed."

"Tang Ya bears a Great Mission, but her Martial Soul is only ordinary Blue Silver Grass. If she wishes to revive the Tang Sect in the future, she carries a heavy responsibility and a long road ahead. Are you sure you still choose her?"

Mu En sighed.

Beibei's gaze was firm. "I am sure. I have already chosen Tang Ya. I will help her. Besides, I am also a member of the Tang Sect."

"This... very well..." Mu En said no more.

It was not a major issue. With Shrek Academy present, it was the greatest safeguard.

He still did not mention the matter of a child bride.

After all, he had actually selected an exceptionally outstanding other half for Beibei long ago.

It was Zhang Lexuan, the current Senior Sister of the Inner Court.

She was already an Eight-Ring Soul Douluo-level powerhouse.

She was undeniably the number one among Shrek Academy's students.

Even Evil Fire Phoenix Ma Xiaotao was far inferior to her.

"By the way, Great-Grandfather, there are two more matters I need to tell you about."

Beibei first spoke of Huo Yuhao, as well as his talent and potential. However, due to his Soul Power Level and Soul Ring, they planned to use this year's Tang Sect Spot to let him enter Shrek Academy through the back door.

"A Spirit Eyes Martial Soul, Spirit Sharing, and Detection..."

"He truly is a strategic talent. If he is properly nurtured, his future prospects will be limitless."

"However, Shrek Academy is not a place that keeps idlers. He will need to put in ten times the effort of an ordinary person to remain after the assessments."

Mu En nodded and agreed.

This was also what Shrek Academy had originally promised the Tang Sect.

Joining was merely an admission ticket. If Huo Yuhao performed poorly, he would still be expelled from Shrek Academy.

Shrek Academy had never lacked monsters.

"Besides that, there is one more matter."

Beibei continued.

He told him about Huang Fei.

"Ordinary Blue Silver Grass like Tang Ya's? A First Thousand-Year Soul Ring, Extreme Life Flow, terrifying life recovery..."

"He is also ten years old..."

"His Innate Soul Power is only Level 0.1?"

"That is even more... than Ancestor Yu Xiaogang's Luo San Pao..."

"And he was born a commoner..."

"In such an extremely harsh environment, he only spent four years achieving this much. This Child truly is a monster among monsters."

"He does meet Shrek Academy's admission standards. He may enter."

Upon hearing this, Mu En was slightly surprised, but soon calmed down and nodded.

Level 0.1 Innate Soul Power.

Huang Fei had told them about that on the way here.

Elsewhere, Huang Fei had already eaten, drunk, and enjoyed himself to the fullest.

Since tomorrow was Shrek Academy's admissions day,

the flow of people within Shrek City had grown even more enormous.

Everyone wanted to send their children there to study.

This was the holy land of Soul Masters across the entire continent.

Huang Fei rented a room at an inn and began meditating as he cultivated the Wood Breathing Technique.

Secret Soul Power Roots burrowed into the ground one after another.

They crazily and greedily drew all the wood energy and Vitality Qi in the world into his body, transforming and refining them.

Shrek Academy was crowded with people, and human presence was the finest Vitality Qi and life energy.

Thus, he discovered that his cultivation was even faster than it had been in the Star Dou Great Forest.

Because they were all humans, their auras were all human presence. Absorbing it was actually smoother than absorbing Wood Attribute Spiritual Energy.

This discovery greatly surprised Huang Fei.

It seemed that places with many people were more suitable for cultivating his Wood Breathing Technique than the Star Dou Great Forest.

Humans were the most unique lifeforms.

Their cultivation speed was often extremely fast.

In the blink of an eye, day and night had alternated, and morning of the second day had arrived.

"It is actually this fast!"

Huang Fei had ended his meditation early. To his shock, his Soul Power Level had already reached the peak of Level Twelve, only half a step away from Level Thirteen.

This cultivation speed was so fast that it stunned him.

He had gained this much in less than a day?

Though his Soul Power was only Level Twelve, it should not have been this exaggerated, right?

It seemed that human presence was a more suitable form of energy for his cultivation than wood qi.

Human presence could be absorbed directly without conversion, resulting in almost no loss.

On the other hand, some energy was consumed while Worldly Energy was converted into wood qi.